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It is a UX issue. If Windows kept every single feature in the same space for 20 years it would be a mess. Things get used, they get prioritized. MS didn't offer huge flexibility. They offer an opinionated take on home and office computing. You've moved on to Linux DE, and that's the correct choice for you. But MS knows what's being used, we know they are spying on you, and I'd be willing to bet it's mostly unused. I have no data, I do have experience in MSP services which I know counts for very little but I do watch and am questions and this stuff to our users and what annoys them ๐คทโโ๏ธ.
Call me crazy but I just find it hard to believe that a high portion of the user base is hurt by this and that large portion of these lemmy users aren't using hotkeys anyway. It's just my guess. I'm sure you'll disagree. And I'm not saying your specific workflow hasn't been affected.
I mean, we kind of have the same point but have just come to opposing conclusions. Take for instance that you can launch the task manager via the context menu on the taskbar in Win11 only. A great new feature which further reinforces the existing design language / mise en place. That is representative of Windows' opinion on window management. The Copilot button contradicts it. For what? If Copilot is useful and popular, is it that users are incapable of saving it to their taskbar via conventional means, or that this isn't satisfactory?
I'm by no means excluding myself from Microsoft's ecosystem or making decisions on the basis of ad tracking, just Windows enshittification, from almost a civil engineering perspective